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After breakfast the first planned activity, church, was almost three hours away. Harry Truman was happier without a plan. He held an informal reception on the hotel porch, accepted a "Jack Garner" grey hat (7⅜) and plunked it on a reporter's head. He pinned an Eagle badge on a Boy Scout, shook hands with everybody who offered his. In the packed hotel lobby, he moved about, chatting with the easy informality of a veteran convention-goer. No one was awed by the U.S. President. He was still chewing...
Spittoons & Specials. Life became more exciting when Papa had to sell the claim he staked in The Run and moved his family into Enid. From the second-floor porch of the midtown office building where they lived, Markey was edified by a clear view into the high-fenced enclosures provided by Enid's saloons for patrons to sleep it off. "Gillespie Brothers was the best for sights. At Sunday-school time on Sunday morning you might see the forms of men who had been there all night, still as stiff as cordwood." Markey met the heavy financial demands...
...Trumans smiled and waved, then returned to the White House. But the crowd still wanted Truman. President and First Lady made a second appearance on the porch. This time there was a hastily erected loudspeaker...
...between the eyes. He and his wife were butchering it with practiced strokes when a vaquero rode up, challenged them, fired over their heads. Scampering away through the mesquite, Mr. & Mrs. Gomez left their tools behind. When they dared go home, they found a policeman waiting on the porch. Last week, cowboy customers of Gomez' Grapevine Inn were sad: no more thick, juicy beefsteaks would they get. Angel was serving two years in prison...
Jack Lafranz red-handed under his porch...